First Day of College!

My first day of college. Wow. I really never thought this day would come. I had dreamed about it since I was like, 5 but I never thought time would rush by me so quickly and get me here. When I got the SOMOS scholarship I was ecstatic...but the joy was bitter sweet. I had maintained a constant dream of moving out of state for college and living somewhere exciting, different, somewhere NOT Utah :S and then I found myself in this situation, with the amazing opportunity to go do my undergrad years for FREE. The difficult thing about this situation was something that I had already begun to realize by the time I filled out most of my University of Chicago application: if I got in, how the heck was i going to pay for school? Here's the thing about my parents: they are the most selfless, self-sacrificing people in the world when it comes to their kids. I know they would have never been able to afford the tuition, but they would have given me everything they could, even if it meant some major sacrifices on their part, major sacrifices that wouldn't even make a dent on my tuition bill (and the tuition bill I had drawn up in my head would have had big portion payed off by financial aid). So I got the scholarship. and I prayed. and I received my answer.

I chose to come here. I didnt know what I would expect. I reminded myself that getting in debt for undergrad school is careless and stupid (especially when you have an ivy league on your mind for grad school :S) , and I reminded myself that Westminster is a solid school with a pretty prestigious reputation (especially in Salt Lake, where most people cant stand the sound of the letters B-Y-U uttered sequentially, lol). I felt good about it. You know, I had accepted that I would be living in Utah for at least 3 more years.

And then it happened. I walked on campus today, my first day of college. And I realized something real amazing about Heavenly Father: He KNOWS me. I'm getting teary as I write this because its such an amazing thing that I have completely come to rearlized: Heavenly Father knows me 1000 times better than I know myself. Everything I didn't know I wanted, everything I knew I wanted is right here. Somehow, HF knew. And he put me here!

My teachers are amazing. They are funny, bright and so completely willing to help their students be successful. The campus is small, cozy, but so full of LIFE! I have never seen so many friendly, helpful people in my whole 18 years of existence. I love the feel of the library, the SUSHI (all i can say is DIVINE), the book store, the computers, the smell....I love it here!!!!!!!

so yeah, I had an amazing first day of College :)

Until next times my luvs!
Ellie